CFB Zeitgeist Score
34
Below cohort in the position cohort. Carried by receptions at the 66th percentile.
Bryce Caufield
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
219 REC YDS · 29 REC · 1 REC TD
2026 Outlook
Returning to Oregon State for 2026
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Tight end · Oregon State
Returning around him
- 52% of 2024 offensive production back (Solid continuity)
- Transfer portal: -15 net (20 in / 35 out)
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
Oregon State · Last season: 2-10 · Talent rank #60 · 2026 recruiting class #64
TE · OREGON STATE · PAC-12
Bryce Caufield
- 4
- #8
- 6-4 | 243 lb
- Lake Oswego, OR
Heisman Heat
#2917
<1% win probability
Fan Belief
Awaiting
Player-specific FI not yet ingested. Falls back to team mood below.
Respect Gap
Awaiting
Coming online with player-level FI.
Reality Gap
Awaiting
Coming online with player-level FI.
ACCOLADE PROBABILITY
Heisman
<1%
TOP TE AWARD
Mackey
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CONSENSUS
All-American
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Player Standing · 17 rungs
Tier 2 · StarterR07 · Impact starter
Impact starter. Producing measurable value above replacement.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Development Trajectory · receiving yards
2023–2025+409%
Up 409% from first season to most-recent.
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
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CFB
College
Oregon State
NFL
NFL Draft
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Identity & Role
The durable bio layer: position, size, hometown, and roster role.
Recruiting Pedigree
How big the prospect was before college, and whether the later career arc beat that expectation.
| Class | Profile | Context |
|---|---|---|
| No recruiting profile is on file for this player. | ||
Transfer Arc
Portal movement changes role, context, and perception. This keeps that path in one place.
| Season | Move | Context |
|---|---|---|
| No transfer portal moves on file for this player. | ||
Heisman Lens · 2024 Season · Final
Where the player landed at the end of the listed season — final nowcast rank, win/finalist/ballot probabilities, and the cleanest official Heisman placement on file.
HIGH CONFIDENCE· through week 16Heisman Futures
Not yet listed on major futures markets.
No achievements unlocked yet this season.
Selector Grid · 2025
AP—
FWAA—
AFCA—
WCFF—
SN—
SI—
Selector recognition fills in once the major honors lists (AP, FWAA, AFCA, Walter Camp, Sporting News, SI) are scraped and ingested.
Today’s Hot-Take
The Hot-Take engine fires when this player’s percentile profile crosses a defensible threshold (top 10% in a cohort, 100+ snap sample). When it’s quiet, the model is honoring its “must be defensible” rule.
Anti-Take
PENDINGThe contrarian read fires when the rules-engine detects a stat that complicates the Hot-Take. Quiet here means the model hasn’t found a defensible counter yet — not that one doesn’t exist.
The Room on Bryce Caufield
Fan sentiment · Awaiting signal
The Room reads fan conversation around a player — who’s talking, what they believe, and how that shifts. It publishes once weekly volume rebuilds; for most players that’s in-season, when game-week chatter spikes.
Cohort divergence map
Cohort divergence reads how different fanbases talk about this player. Returns once weekly mentions clear the publish floor.
Rival Radar
How rival fanbases talk about Bryce Caufield
No rival-bucket mentions in the current season.
2025 Signature · 2025 season
Receiving TDs
1
count
All FBS WRs, min 20 receptions
National rank #402 of 531
Percentile vs All FBS WRs, min 20 receptions 24th
Why it matters
#402 of 531 All FBS WRs in receiving TDs — 1 TDs on 29 receptions.
Vs cohort
This player 1 (24th)
MODERATE · n=29 cohort 531
- Also strong
- Receiving yards (total)#482 / 531
- Yards per reception#504 / 531
Signature Moment
Week 3 at Texas Tech — 1 receiving_tds
Result L 14-45
The week the volume broke through — stacked 1 td at Texas Tech.
Season Pace · Projection
Where the receiving totals stand
Through 8g
219Rec yards
29Receptions
1Rec TDs
Per game
27.4Rec yards
4Receptions
0Rec TDs
Projected (13g)
355.9Rec yards
47Receptions
2Rec TDs
To hit 700-yard receiver (currently 219): needs 96.2/game over remaining 5.
To hit 1,000-yard receiver (currently 219): needs 156.2/game over remaining 5.
To hit 60-catch season (currently 29): needs 6.2/game over remaining 5.
To hit 80-catch season (currently 29): needs 10.2/game over remaining 5.
To hit 8 receiving TDs (currently 1): needs 1.4/game over remaining 5.
To hit 10 receiving TDs (currently 1): needs 1.8/game over remaining 5.
What made this player interesting
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Bryce Caufield's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Oregon State, the card already shows enough current-season production to explain why he is on the serious-player board, and the next layer is determining whether the profile is just very good or actually distinctive.
2025 Season · Final
Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.
Last season
TE season snapshot
2025 season snapshot | final
2025 season snapshot | finalData: CFBD player stats + local Heisman modelPeer context: same position + same level
Player identity What kind of player is this?
30-second read
What kind of player is this?
Target magnet against FBS receiving peers.
2025 Season · Final
2025 season snapshot | final
Receiving
REC
29 88th
YDS
219 80th
YPR
7.6 27th
TD
1 71st
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 8 games
| Wk | Opp | REC | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 15-34vs California | 2 | 9 | 4.5 | 0 | 5 | |
| Wk 2 | L 27-36vs Fresno State | 3 | 15 | 5.0 | 0 | 7 | |
| Wk 3 | L 14-45@ Texas Tech | 7 | 43 | 6.1 | 1 | 10 | |
| Wk 4 | L 7-41@ Oregon | 2 | 21 | 10.5 | 0 | 15 | |
| Wk 5 | L 24-27vs Houston | 4 | 48 | 12.0 | 0 | 30 | |
| Wk 10 | W 10-7vs Washington State | 2 | 12 | 6.0 | 0 | 7 | |
| Wk 11 | L 17-21vs Sam Houston | 3 | 15 | 5.0 | 0 | 10 | |
| Wk 14 | L 8-32@ Washington State | 6 | 56 | 9.3 | 0 | 24 | Season-high 56 yds |
| Total | 29 | 219 | 7.3 | 1 | 30 |
Season-by-season tables Career rows + per-season box score
Traditional history
Traditional Stats
Season rows up top, career context at the bottom.
Season context · Team result + system
2023Oregon State8-5HC: Jonathan Smith · Run-leaning
2025Oregon State2-10HC: Trent Bray · Balanced
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Oregon State | 29 | 219 | 7.6 | 1 | -- |
| 2023 | Oregon State | 3 | 43 | 14.3 | 0 | -- |
| Career | 2 loaded seasons | 32 | 262 | 8.2 | 1 | -- |
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context
Advanced metrics second
Advanced Metrics
Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.
The tight end's share of the passing offense, which helps distinguish a featured receiving tight end from a secondary option.
A blended usage view that shows how often the offense flows through the tight end compared with other same-level peers.
Every percentile is compared against players at the same position and level, so an FBS quarterback is judged against FBS quarterbacks, not the whole sport.
The top tables stick to the stats fans already know from broadcasts and box scores. Advanced context is pushed underneath instead of replacing the basics.
Open full stat explorer
| Group | Metric | Value | Rank | Pct | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Receiving | Receptions | 29 | #58/475 | 88th pct | Volumevs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Receiving yards | 219 | #98/475 | 80th pct | Volumevs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Receiving TD | 1 | #140/475 | 71st pct | Scoringvs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Yards / catch | 7.6 | #348/475 | 27th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS TE |
| Usage | Pass share | 12.0% | #52/468 | 89th pct | Air-game usagevs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Receiving LONG | 30 | #134/475 | 72nd pct | Metricvs FBS TE |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 9.0% | #36/468 | 93rd pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS TE |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 8.3% | #46/468 | 90th pct | Money-down loadvs FBS TE |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 6.6% | #50/468 | 90th pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS TE |
| Usage | Role share | 6.3% | #40/468 | 92nd pct | Share of team offensevs FBS TE |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 5.5% | #60/468 | 87th pct | Early-down loadvs FBS TE |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 5.0% | #69/468 | 85th pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS TE |
| Usage | Rush share | 0.0% | #58/468 | 88th pct | Ground-game usagevs FBS TE |
| Ball Security | Fumbles lost | 1 | #34/55 | 40th pct | Turnoversvs FBS TE |
Player Standing
Universal 17-step ladder. Tier pills below; accolade streams nested.
AWAITING CLASSIFICATION
On-team2-deepStartingRecognizedEliteApex
AWAITING CLASSIFICATION · Rung None of 16
Why he’s here
Standing classification populates when honors, Heisman, and roster signals all align.
What moves him up
What moves him down
Accolade streams
Status—Awaiting tracker
The Mackey award tracker integrates per-week probability once a dedicated scraper for this award lands. Confirmed past winners and finalists for this player will surface here.
Splits · Per-game
2025 season · 8 games
Home vs Road
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 2.8 | 19.8 | 6.5 | 0.0 |
| Road3g | 5.0 | 40.0 | 8.6 | 0.3 |
Win vs Loss
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins1g | 2.0 | 12.0 | 6.0 | 0.0 |
| Losses7g | 3.9 | 29.6 | 7.5 | 0.1 |
First half vs Second half
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-75g | 3.6 | 27.2 | 7.6 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+3g | 3.7 | 27.7 | 6.8 | 0.0 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the TE cohort
34Below cohort
Concern: yards / catch (6th).
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
Advanced Savant · TE · 2024
Percentile Card
Advanced opponent-adjusted percentile bars are coming soon for this player.
P4G5All FBS
Advanced Savant
Opponent-adjusted advanced metrics with a cohort filter.
Advanced opponent-adjusted metrics are coming soon for this player. Selected cohort: P4.
Peer Comparator · Fingerprint match
Three closest profiles by box-rate percentile
Bryce CaufieldOregon StateHayden HansenFlorida· 89% simCaden JensenLouisiana· 88% simTyler FortenberryArkansas State· 85% sim
Receptions
Rec yards
Long catch
Fumbles lost
Rec TDs
Yards / catch
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Player DNA
The Complete TE
Dual-threat: blocks when needed, catches when needed. Coveted on both sides.
TE
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Josiah Miamen’s 2022 season.
Josiah Miamen
88%match
#2
Nick Gallo
86%
#3
Reed Tyler
79%
#4
Camm McDonald
82%
#5
Jake Roberts
81%
Matches Josiah on
Height
Yards / reception
Total EPA (college ability)
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a junior, his production profile tracks closest to Camm McDonald's junior season at Florida State (2022).
Camm McDonald
88%match
#2
Nick Gallo
88%
#3
Riley Smith
82%
#4
Drew Biber
81%
#5
Brady Hunt
All-MAC
80%
Matches Camm on
Yards / reception
TD rate
Total EPA (college ability)
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Trent Bray
Pass share
51.7%
431 pass / 403 run
Plays / game
69.5
12 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
7.0%
369 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Coaching Lineage · 2023–2025
2 coaches2023
Jonathan Smith
Oregon State
2025era →
Trent Bray
Oregon State
Coaching transition mid-career: Jonathan Smith → Trent Bray. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster
Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.
HometownLake Oswego, OR
Height6'4"
Weight243 lb
Class4
PositionTE
Jersey8
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamOregon State
ConferencePac-12
Joined2025
Career arc4 season(s)
Trophy Case · Detail
Every honor on the ledger, broken out by stream and selector.
No formal honors on the ledger yet
All-America, all-conference, player-of-the-week, watch-list, and postseason awards land here when they're earned. The absence is the signal: most players never collect formal honors, and that's its own kind of context.
Honors Timeline
Season-end distinction and week-by-week recognition on one timeline.
| Season | Honor | Scope | Team / Selector | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No formal honors on the ledger yet. All-America, all-conference, weekly awards, watch lists, and postseason trophies land here when they’re earned. | ||||
Heisman By Year
Modeled rank and official finish by season.
| Season | Team | Role | Latest Model | Forecast | Win | Finalist | Official Finish | Points | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Oregon State | TE4 | #2917 | #2857 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W16 snapshot | Pac-12 |
| 2023 | Oregon State | TE4 | #1664 | #1517 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W19 snapshot | Pac-12 |
| 2022 | Oregon State | TE4 | #2466 | #2030 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | Pac-12 |
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Oregon State | Pac-12 | TE | 4 | No. 8 | 6-4 | 243 lb | Lake Oswego, OR |
| 2024 | Oregon State | Pac-12 | TE | 4 | No. 8 | 6-4 | 243 lb | Lake Oswego, OR |
| 2023 | Oregon State | Pac-12 | TE | 4 | No. 8 | 6-4 | 243 lb | Lake Oswego, OR |
| 2022 | Oregon State | Pac-12 | TE | 4 | No. 8 | 6-4 | 243 lb | Lake Oswego, OR |